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 484 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1027. 1988. oflice furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other mea11s of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for bake-ovens at posts and in the field, and B¤¤¤d¤¢rv¤y· repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employled on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods not less t an ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnancesergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and Army ride competitions, while traveling to and from places of contest; in -¤¤°¤¤°- all, one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secreta of War; and not more than one hundred and ten thousand dollarsltlhereof shall be applied °"*“*°°mP‘°7°°“· to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department. Q¤¤r¤ep¤mmr’¤D<> QUARTERMAsTER’s DEPARTMENT. mm *°PP*°¤· Regular supplies; For the regular supplies of the Quartermastefs Department, consisting of stoves and heating ap aratus, and repair an maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and qluarters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for en isted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, an for sales to officers; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, including its care and protection; for the horses of the several re `ments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies oflinfantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, inc uding bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the Quartermasters De artment. certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Fay and Quartermasters Departments, and for printing division and department orders and reports, two million six hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars: New- Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be ex ended on P"¤"°€· printing unless the same shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, exce lt in such case as the emer ency will not admit of the giving notice lfor competition: P}'OI'l·(`I€(§flL”I'Hl€7°, That after pu¥;:r¤¤¤¤¤ of ¤¤P· advertisement all the supplies for the use of the various departments and osts of the Army s mll be purchased where the same can be purcliased the cheapest. quality and cost of transportation considered. Incidenmlexpeuses. Incidental expenses: For ostage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers em loyed under the direction of the Quartermaster s Department in de erection of barracks. quarters. and store-houses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor. for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; for expense of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains. where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartennastefs Department, compensation of